Applied mathematics
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PodcastSak Tahn Waax: the first Maya mathematician to sign his calculations
Discovered at Xultún in Guatemala: the signature of the first formally identified Maya mathematician, Sak Tahn Waax, who calculated the cycles of Venus and Mars around 781 CE.
PodcastHow a specialist in probability becomes a pillar of the Republic of Professors
A portrait of Émile Borel, the illustrious mathematician of the Belle Époque, who combined a brilliant scientific career with political engagement and a fight for justice.
PodcastÉmile Borel: probability at the cradle of quantum theory
Émile Borel's notebook on Paul Langevin's course at the Collège de France: a unique testimony to the scientific ferment surrounding quanta.
PodcastMathematical code - Sagrada Família: Gaudí's secret finally revealed
A Barcelona mathematician discovers that the Sagrada Família is built on a 7.5-metre module and the proportions of the divisors of 12. Here's how.
PodcastThis papyrus buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD was read unopened
Researchers have succeeded in reading a papyrus scroll charred by Vesuvius in 79 AD, using tomography, phase contrast, and artificial intelligence.
PodcastTuring, Matilda, Flatland: the Tangente Prize winners for middle and high schools that bring students and maths closer together
The winners of the Tangente Prizes for middle and high schools are known. Nearly 3,000 students voted for their favorite mathematics books.
PodcastSMF 2025 prizes: d'Alembert and Jacqueline-Ferrand
The Société mathématique de France awards its 2025 prizes to the exhibition “Ça résonne” by MMI Lyon and to the company L'île logique, along with the ResCo scheme for collaborative teaching.
Podcast52 playing cards to learn astronomy and geometry
In the 17th century, Joseph Moxon and his son James published educational playing cards for learning astronomy, geometry and the art of carving.
PodcastHilbert's 6th problem solved: the Newton-Boltzmann-Navier-Stokes link finally proven
A team of mathematicians has finally solved Hilbert's sixth problem, linking the equations of Newton, Boltzmann, and Navier-Stokes after 125 years of research.
PodcastTwo billion smartphones turned into a seismograph network
Explanation of the Android earthquake alert system that turns the accelerometers of two billion phones into an early earthquake detection network.
PodcastArchimedes page found at Blois museum: palimpsest and ancient geometry
Victor Gysembergh has found a leaf from the Archimedes palimpsest, missing since 1906, hidden beneath an illumination of the prophet Daniel at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.
Podcast2026 World Cup: 25,000 simulations pick Spain to win
Using 25,000 simulations and the Monte Carlo method, Opta predicts Spain will be 2026 world champion with a 16.1% chance. But this figure illustrates the paradox of 48-team tournaments: even the top favorite has an 84% chance of not winning.
PodcastCubeHarmonic: the Rubik's Cube that makes algebra audible
Invented by Maria Mannone, the CubeHarmonic uses a Rubik's Cube to create musical harmonies and teach algebra intuitively.
PodcastTerence Tao warns: AI writes proofs no one can read
Terence Tao warns of a new threshold: AI is accelerating proof formalization, but producing results too verbose for humans to understand.
PodcastCan you learn fractions by shooting a basketball?
A Norwegian study demonstrates that basketball exercises help students aged 11 to 13 improve by 15% in fractions, thanks to learning through the body.
PodcastHuman brain mechanism that's revolutionizing self-driving AI
A team at the University of Valencia transposes a mechanism from the visual cortex into neural networks, improving autonomous driving by 20% in difficult conditions.
PodcastLeibniz and the best of all possible worlds: mathematics and philosophy
How Leibniz uses mathematics to justify the existence of the best of all possible worlds through infinitesimal calculus, symmetry, and philosophy.
PodcastThe three certainties on which Descartes built all of his physics
How Descartes built his philosophy on three certainties: the existence of the thinking subject, divine goodness, and mathematical rigor.
PodcastNewton on space and the divine: a philosophical and historical analysis
Isaac Newton revolutionized our understanding of space by conceiving it as an absolute mathematical framework, distinct from the bodies within it.
PodcastWhitehead: logical harmony of mathematics and philosophy
A journey into the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, who laid the foundations of the Principia Mathematica with Russell and developed a metaphysics of the cosmos in which God and mathematics work together in the world's unfolding.